![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Acts narrates what happened after the time Jesus ascended to heaven, so the Apocryphon of John begins at the same point but relates how Christ reappeared to John. Many second-century Christians, both Gnostic and orthodox, hoped to receive a transcendent personal revelation such as Paul the Apostle reported to the church at Corinth ( 2 Corinthians 12:1–4) or that John experienced on the isle of Patmos, which inspired the Book of Revelation. The author describes it as having occurred after Jesus had "gone back to the place from which he came". It is presented as describing Jesus appearing and giving secret knowledge ( gnosis) to his disciple John. It is one of the texts addressed by Irenaeus in his Against Heresies, placing its composition before 180 CE. The Apocryphon of John, also called the Secret Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle. ![]()
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